The Processes Behind My Section of Choreography

 When choreographing our designated section, we went through various processes to come up with ideas. The section I'm choreographing with Gabby and Portia consists of a significant change in the dynamics of the music and symbolises a fight between different personalities. To mark this change we decided to start off with a big, explosive jump to represent the emotion of anger. We also include punching actions and flexed feet at various stages to put emphasis on the fact that we're portraying a fight. Moreover at another point where there is a slight change in the music, we established that I would do a few quick pirouettes whilst everyone else made a formation around me reacting to my quick movement in slower manner to create a contrast. By having a split focus here the stress the DID sufferer undergoes is highlighted through my quick turns which give off the effect of whirlwind and in turn a sense of overwhelm. After this moment of stress, we all stand tall in unison in an strong position, with fists clenched, to epitomise determination to beat the battling emotion. At this point in the music there is also what sounds like a cry out of despair, and we hoped that by having this brief moment of determination we would further affirm this through our movements. Subsequently, we added in a cower to exemplify that the person has not yet overcome the arduous emotion and is still very much so struggling. With regards to actually coming up with our choreography we simply listened to the music and its dynamics, and then tried to figure out ways we could portray the message through different movements. Although this worked well I think in the future I would definitely try out some of the other choreographing methods as discussed in our classes, one of Wayne McGregor's methods that we learnt about in a TED talk in particular.

In our choreography lesson we had a few moments of realisation when things didn’t look right, to overcome this we made various approaches. For example, in our first section of split focus near the start of the piece we original were going to have the people in the semi-circle formation doing a section of structured improvisation whilst the group of four do their section in the centre, however when this was viewed from the front the problem arose that things looked too busy and potentially even messy so to counter this we came up with the solution to bring the improvisation close the ground to have the middle group as the focal point for this section. Another issue we encountered was that in order for some people to get to their next place to begin a new section they had to travel quite a distance from their original assigned place, and with time being limited, this wasn’t ideal. Therefore we switched the order of people to solve this issue.